Institution:
Italian Library Association (AIB)

Rome

Address:
Italian Library Association (AIB)
Casella postale 2461
00100 Roma A-D
c/o Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale
viale Castro Pretorio 105
00185 Roma
tel. +39-06-4463532
fax +39-06-4441139

Contact persons:

Effective members
Donatella Lombello (Coordinator)
Department of Education Sciences, Faculty of Education Sciences,
University of Padua
Piazza Capitaniato, 3
35139 Padova
tel.: 049 8274554
fax: 049 8274546

Marcello Bajardi
Biblioteca Scolastica I Circolo "G. Garibaldi"
Via Rubino, 15
91025 Marsala
tel.: 0923 718282 / 714129 
fax: 0923 713442

Maria Teresa De Nardis (Referente per Osservatorio Lavoro)
IPSACT Matteotti
56127 Pisa
tel.: 050 941056

Marica Doglietto
IRRE Piemonte
C.so Vittorio Emanuele II, 70
10121 Torino
tel.: 011 5606449

Luisa Marquardt
CASPUR
via dei Tizii 6b 
00185 Roma
tel.: 06 7187642

External consultants
Marina Bolletti
Biblioteca "F. Ruffatti", Liceo "A. Cornaro"
Padova
tel.: 049 8024545

Enrichetta Fatigato
Biblioteca Provinciale. ilDock, Centro di documentazione multimediale
viale Di Vittorio, 31 
71100 Foggia
tel. 0881 631563
fax. 0881 636881

Markus Fritz
Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano. Ufficio biblioteche e lettura
via Andreas Hofer 18 
39100 Bolzano
tel.: 0471 413324
fax: 0471413362

Giuliano Gobbetti
ITIS
Bolzano
tel.: 0471 351276

Mariagrazia Morello
Liceo Artistico
Saluzzo (CN)
tel.: 0175 41657

Lisa Palandri
Liceo Scientifico "L. da Vinci"
Firenze
tel.: 055 242303

• Surveys, censuses and publicizing the results: studies and surveys describing the state of the art and the activities of school libraries and school librarians; census of school library networks; analysis of the needs of Italian school libraries and school librarians; publishing of the results on the AIB’s website.
  
• Work tables:
  - Work table with MIUR (Ministry of University and Research)  for the recognition of the school librarian profile;
  - Work table with MIUR, MiBAC (Ministry of Culture), DIT - Department for Innovation and Technologies  in order to support and develop the project “Libraries at schools”;
  - Work table with MIUR and USR (Regional School Departments) in order to use European funds for financing courses for school librarians, equipments and facilities, and for updating/implementing the book heritage.
  
• Cooperation with USR (Regional School Departments) and IRRE (Regional Institutes for Educational Research) in order to disseminate in the school institutes all the news and/or the initiatives involving school libraries.
  
• Dissemination of the IFLA Guidelines through the representatives of the school library networks.
  
• Translation and publishing of
  - international documents concerning school libraries and the education and training of the school librarian;
  - international documents related to information literacy.
  
• International relations with IFLA (International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions), IASL (International Association of School Librarianship)  and ENSIL (European Network for School Library and Information Literacy)  and other European bodies concerned with school libraries.
  
• Active participation in AIB conferences and book fairs.
  
• Enhancing and promoting the website of the Committee, by enriching information links.
  
• Enhancing and promoting the research groups on school libraries operating on national territory.

Meetings on school libraries

The meetings, organised by the Veneto and Friuli-Venezia Giulia Sections of the Italian Library Association (AIB), are addressed to school librarians, teachers concerned with school libraries or interested in a closer cooperation between the school and the library, and all the librarians operating on the territory.
The main aim of the initiatives is to stress the interest and the topicality of the school library, its fundamental role within the school, its inalienable function between the territorial library system.

• Rovigo, 15 maggio 2006
  The School Library and the international trends.
  Donatella Lombello (AIB Standing Committee for School Libraries and Resource Centres and Department of Education Sciences, Padua University)
  The IFLA Guidelines for School Libraries and other international documents relevant to this topic are presented.
  
  
• Rovigo, 22 maggio 2006
  The School Library as didactic classroom: teaching information seeking and use processes.
  Marina Bolletti (AIB - Veneto Section and Library of “A. Cornaro” High School, Padua)
  The focus – also through practical examples – is on the primary function of the school library: to provide future citizens with information seeking and use skills.
  

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